Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,256 posts is dedicated to providing great information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Samuel Eugene Kelly (1926-2009)
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Isaiah T. Montgomery (1847-1924)
Robert Reffkin (TechCrunch)
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Robert Reffkin (1979- )
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Peter Barrow (1840-1906)

Explore Global African History

Modibo Keita (Vanguard News)
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Modibo Keita (1915-1977)
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Bandung Conference, 1955
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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery and the Irish”
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Cyril Ramaphosa (1952- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Edythe Turnham and Her Knights of Syncopation, Seattle, 1925
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Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955
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Has President Obama Changed the Way Washington Works?
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Sam Langford: History’s Forgotten Boxer
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Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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